CVE-2025-68290 (GCVE-0-2025-68290)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 15:06 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:50
VLAI
Title
most: usb: fix double free on late probe failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: most: usb: fix double free on late probe failure The MOST subsystem has a non-standard registration function which frees the interface on registration failures and on deregistration. This unsurprisingly leads to bugs in the MOST drivers, and a couple of recent changes turned a reference underflow and use-after-free in the USB driver into several double free and a use-after-free on late probe failures.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c , < 90e6ce2b1b19fb8b9d4afee69f40e4c6a4791154 (git)
Affected: 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c , < a4c4118c2af284835b16431bbfe77e0130c06fef (git)
Affected: 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c , < 0dece48660be16918ecf2dbdc7193e8be03e1693 (git)
Affected: 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c , < 993bfdc3842893c394de13c8200c338ebb979589 (git)
Affected: 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c , < 2274767dc02b756b25e3db1e31c0ed47c2a78442 (git)
Affected: 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c , < 8d8ffefe3d5d8b7b73efb866db61130107299c5c (git)
Affected: 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c , < baadf2a5c26e802a46573eaad331b427b49aaa36 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.247 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.197 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.159 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.119 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.61 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.11 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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